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It just occured to me, that one of the really defining characteristics of SRS'ers, is that they deal in absolutes. Either you're a shitlord, or you're OK. If you have done one thing wrong over the course of your life, then that one thing is going to taint everything else. I have yet to encounter an SRS'er, who reads through a post, and says: "I agree with this, but disagree with that". If you are not in line with consensus, then you're simply incapable of having a 'correct' opinion. Once you're on the shitlist, then everything you will ever say, and everything you ever have said - can only be seen in a negative way. There is no: "He was sort of an ass, but he was right about this...". It's either one or the other, which, let's face it, is not really a very adult way to think.

Where does inability to understand humor come in? Because I see it consistently. A lot of the comments they target are clearly said tongue-in-cheek, and they can't understand satire. They are the kind of people who would take this video seriously, rather than analyzing it as a critique of misogyistic tendencies in popular hiphop.

The movement is, in my opinion, very scatological. Excrement and its related trappings are attached to bad behavior.

Farts and fart-noises, various and sundry words for feces, etc, have entered into a sort of infantile nomenclature. At the risk of strawmanning, they use these terms to discredit and belittle in the way a child would. "I don't like you, so you're a poo-poo-head".

They remind me of those brain-damaging bunny graphics at Hot Topic. "Boys stink, throw rocks at them", etc - a tween-level imposition of words and concepts that attempt to associate negative bodily function with that which is seen as bad.

The whole movement that SRS is built on is based on the idea that, if someone is not successful or is flawed in any way then it is NEVER their fault. They're failures because society oppresses them, or because they have some nebulous disability. And instead of improving themselves, they linger in a forum that reinforces their fantasy that they're just fine the way they are.

Interestingly, I just posted something to another forum that relates to that. I'm on the autism spectrum (I be crazy, yo), and a lot of people who have been diagnosed with an autism related condition, have a hard time dealing with human interaction. I have too.

But I learned pretty early on, that I can't change the world. People with asperger's and other autism disorders, have a tendency to come off as extremely arrogant and demeaning in a lot of social settings. There are two ways to deal with that.

You can inform people that you have a disorder, that makes it hard to connect with others, and to objectively evaluate yourself in a social setting. The "Please cut me some slack, I'm medically weird" pundit.

You can learn the social skills that are necessary, to avoid the issue alltogether.

It's simply not possible to function in this world when you're socially inept. People would more readily say: "You're using it as an excuse!", rather than take it into consideration. They often regard your condition as a form of 'medically lisenced douchebaggery'; they think you can just snap out of it, and stop being an insensitive twerp.

So I have spent years and years trying to overcome these social challenges, and I have succeeded. I have lots of friends, and I function like a completely normal individual in society, in a way that I didn't 15 years ago. I have refused to use my condition as an excuse, and I have refused to push my issue onto others, because I do beleive that it's easier for everyone. You're only a victim if you allow yourself to be.

But of course, I'm not a mute autistic guy, who spends his days looking at phone books. I was always very weird and a special kid, but I was never beyond help. It's clear that there are a lot of people out there, who genuinely needs help, and who can't make it on their own. But if I had just given up at the age of twenty, and said to myself: "Shit, I'm never going to learn this. Now I'll just stop giving a fuck", everyone around me including myself would just have been miserable.

But of course, all of this doesn't stop SRS'ers from yelling SAWCSM at me. I know I'm previliged compared to all the others, who are on the heavier side of the spectrum. But at the same time, I see a lot of people who are all to quick to jump into that role of being the victim. And it's often pretty stupid. It's a lot easier if you change yourself, rather than try to change the world.

I'll tell you what really pissed me off when I got banned from SRSDiscussion. The mods started writing me in private, and I responded in good faith thinking the ban was some kind of misunderstanding. You see - people on the autism spectrum have a tendency to take everything literally. We're ideal troll-fodder, because we can't understand the underlying social cues. One could say that we're naive - we're really easy to take advantage of.

So they took advantage of me by bullying and mocking me. Making me look really stupid for their own pleasure. It took a long time for me to realize it. It wasn't until KPrimus wrote this (Long into the discussion), that everything fell into place:

[–] from KPrimus[M] via /r/SRSDiscussion/
there's this thing called a "joke" that you're not getting

Now that actually hurt. I was bullied a lot like that as a kid because of my condition. But they set me up for a really long time, just so they could shoot me down and make fun of me. When SRS mods do this kind of stuff, they have no idea who is on the receiving end. They claim that they are trying to defend marginalized groups, but then the mods turn around and make fun of them in private. Granted, they didn't know about my diagnosis. But this is precisely why, they shouldn't jump to conclusions, and it is also why their entire premise is flawed. When they are calling people out, and are dancing around them like baboons, they don't give a shit that the victim has issues.

I realized then, that it was less about social issues, and more about feeling superior to other people. The entire social justice stick, was nothing more than a scheme; a covnenient excuse to bully others. Cue my subscription to antisrs....

The one childish thing about SRS that bothers me is how much they enjoy creating a clique. Reddit had its narwhal and bacon and all that stuff, SRS says "dag" instead of "dog" and creates its own byzantine language.

Cliquish in groups, defined largely in part by inaccessible language and a desire to expel people who weren't with it were the bane of my childhood. I notice it show up every now and then.

The whole thing with insisting that attraction to 15 year olds is the same exact thing as pedophilia...not that it isn't "creepy" or anything it's just a very different category.

Also it's funny how much they make fun of egalitarianism ("eaglelibrarianism") since most feminist theory is founded in egalitarian principles. Very strange choice of label to associate with "the other side". That said, I don't exactly subscribe to egalitarianism myself it's just a thing I've noticed

I don't know about childish, but they fit the caricature of the fresh-faced well-to-do college student who thinks they are such a rebel. You know the sort, the ones you see wearing those Che Guevara t-shirts.